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Lakers guard/forward Xavier Henry suffered an injury to his left Achilles tendon in practice Monday, and team officials suspect that it's a rupture.
Henry was taken to get an MRI exam but it appears that the oft-injured swingman suffered another...

On Monday and Tuesday, Tom Thibodeau said the following, sometimes without prompting:
• "Are we putting the work in that's necessary to compete well? That's what the good teams do. I've been around a long time. I know what should go into a...

On Wednesday, the D-Fenders named Conner Henry as head coach.
Henry was named coach of the year in 2014, leading the Fort Wayne Mad Ants to an NBA Development League title.
"I’m looking forward to returning to Los Angeles and to the D-Fenders...

There's only one thing left to say about the Lakers. If they lose to the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday, they'll be the worst team in the franchise's 67-year history.
The season is almost over for them, as imbalanced and off-center as Vander Blue's...

Facing a severe shortage of healthy guards, the Lakers plan to sign guard Vander Blue from their Development League affiliate.
The team is not sure Blue will play Monday night at Sacramento because his flight is scheduled to land within an hour of...

The Lakers lost another player for the season Thursday, when an MRI revealed that veteran guard Wayne Ellington has a separated shoulder.
Ellington suffered a grade 1 shoulder separation in a 113-92 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday.
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The Lakers are waiting, yet again, for the results of an MRI after veteran guard Wayne Ellington suffered a mild separation of his right shoulder in the team's 113-92 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday.
"He was pretty sore this...

The Lakers' lost season took another directionless turn Thursday when preliminary results of an MRI exam showed a torn rotator cuff in Kobe Bryant's right shoulder.
Team officials declined to say how long Bryant would be sidelined until he could be...

The Lakers have until 2 p.m. PST on Wednesday to decide on the contracts of Wayne Ellington, Ronnie Price and Tarik Black.
All NBA players on nonguaranteed contracts become locked in if not placed on waivers by the Wednesday deadline.
Ellington is under...

The Lakers may have struggled to make the playoffs this season at full strength, but the team has been far from injury-free.
After losing a close one Monday night in Portland to the Blazers (27-8), the Lakers fell to 11-24. The team had a shot to...

The Lakers ended a winless Week 8 with Kobe Bryant considering taking time off after the team's Sunday-night loss to the Sacramento Kings.
Week 9 proved to be only slightly more productive with one win in four tries.
Coach Byron Scott m

The Lakers (6-16) hope to win their second straight game Friday night when they visit the San Antonio Spurs (16-6).
The Spurs previously beat the Lakers in mid-November, 93-80 -- a game that saw Kobe Bryant score nine points while missing 13 of 14 shot...

The Lakers (5-16) lost their third-straight game on Sunday, falling to the New Orleans Pelicans (9-10). Here are five takeaways from their 104-87 defeat on Sunday at Staples Center.
1) Coach Byron Scott changed the Lakers' lineup but the result...

The Lakers were granted a hardship exception by the NBA last week to increase their roster to 16 players but decided against using it before it expired two days later.
With injuries to Xavier Henry (Achilles'), Steve Nash (back), Julius Randle (leg)...

The Lakers have been granted a hardship exception by the NBA to increase their roster to 16 players.
With injuries to Xavier Henry (Achilles' tendon), Steve Nash (back), Julius Randle (leg) and Ryan Kelly (hamstring), the Lakers have had just 11...

The Lakers (4-13) remained undefeated against the Eastern Conference on Sunday night, defeating the first-place Toronto Raptors (13-4).
With three wins against the east, but just one in 14 tries against the Western Conference, the Lakers currently have...

The Lakers salvaged a disappointing week -- losing two of three through Week 5 to dip to 4-13 on the season -- with a win over the Toronto Raptors on Sunday.
After ending Week 4 on a sour note in a defeat in overtime the Denver Nuggets, the Lakers lost...

Those "three to four years" Jim Buss gave himself to straighten out the Lakers are shaping up as a timeline to nowhere, except maybe basketball oblivion.
A month into the season, the Lakers are 3-13 and can't even mark time properly.
They lost...

The last-place team in the Western Conference almost beat the first-place team Wednesday, almost the type of thing Mitch Kupchak alluded to three hours earlier.
No one can call the Lakers' general manager prophetic, but he hinted at the NBA's...

The Lakers are involved in discussions to reunite with one of their former players but haven't officially signed Earl Clark.
One person familiar with the situation said the team had agreed to terms with Clark for the rest of the season, but another...